The installer doesn’t check the size of the install media before attempting an install. A 2 GB device is required, but the install will appear to complete successfully on smaller devices, only to fail at boot.

The installer will let you switch from i386 to amd64 architecture and vice-versa, but some files, such as the rrd files used by the statistics graphing package are architecture dependent.

The 8.0.1 User Guide has also been released. The links to the HTML, PDF, and ODT versions are available at doc.freenas.org. The front page of the documentation wiki has been reorganized to make it clear where the documentation is for .7x users, for the current release of the operating system, and for the development of the upcoming 8.1 documentation. The EPUB version should be available early next week and the Kindle version should show up in Amazon by Tuesday.

You can download FreeNAS 8.0.1 from Sourceforge. If you are upgrading, be sure to read the section on Upgrading first.

NOTE: If you are currently running a nightly, save your configuration and perform a new install as upgrades from nightlies are not supported. After installation, you can auto-import your volumes and restore your configuration.